For those long road trips to Tahoe/Reno area, you might want to consider getting one of these in-car Auto Microwaves so you can cook your favorite microwave food on the way there and eat them.

Meals on the move!
· Compact and portable
· Fast cooking speeds
· Powered via 12V cigarette lighter socket or direct to car battery - both leads supplied
· Robust steel construction with heavy-duty handle
· LED screen with touchscreen operation
· Up to 660W power via direct to battery connection and 175W via cigarette lighter socket

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Wow, check out this awesome realistic Terminator DVD Player someone made.  It’s very classy and I am sure they’d make some good money if they sold this.

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Here’s a world-class card stacker who made the Olympic Village in 20 days.

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If you ever been to Las Vegas or any other resort-area, you will have noticed these Dry Water Massagers in the malls.

Well, now you can get one of these cool massage machines right in your home for just $29,500.

Sounds expensive?

Yes, it surely is but for the best personal massage in the world without a real human massager, this might be your best bet at saving your back.

The Dry Water Jet Massager.
Used at five-star resort spas, this device provides a full-body water jet massage without getting you wet, and uses aromatherapy, relaxing audio, and video to soothe your tactile, olfactory, auditory, and optical senses. While your head rests comfortably on a headrest outside of the unit, 28 nozzles inside the canopy deliver precise, invigorating streams of water that replicate the principles of shiatsu, or “finger pressure” massage, as they strike the pliable polymer sheet that provides a waterproof barrier between you and the nozzles (allowing use while completely clothed).

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As a person who owns both a regular old flatbed scanner separately from the keyboard, I can appreciate the importance of having the scanner closer to the mouse.

This Keyscan Keyboard comes with a 4800dpi scanner attached to the top of the keyboard for easy document scanning.  I think this is a pretty good idea.

Scanning type: Sheet-Feed scanner
Scanning mode:
Color: 24/48** bits high quality
Gray: 8/16** bits gray level
Black & white
Media size: 8.5″x30″ ……2″x3″
Document release:
Bi directional automatically triggered by
document length
True-Optical resolution: 600 dpi
Optical technology: High quality and reliable color CIS technology
Output resolution:
From 50 dpi to 4800 dpi
Scanning speed: High-speed USB2 scanner
Fast functions:
4 dedicated fast scan function keys
PC interface: High-speed USB2
Software interface:
Twain interface and USB2 driver
Power adapter: AC 100~240V

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For Do-It-Yourselfers, making your onw multi-touch input device has never been easier with the DIY Multi-Touch Kit.

TouchKit is a modular multitouch development kit with the aim to make multitouch readily available in an open source fashion. It is a sister project of the CUBIT multitouch system and aimed at rapid implementation of multitouch projects.

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Here’s a really cool DIY on how to hack your own RC hovercraft.

It looks pretty simple enough other than the RC parts.

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“The workings of a hovercraft are fairly straightforward: one high-power motor with an airplane propeller forces air down through the hole in the center, which pushes the bottom of the hovercraft off the ground. This greatly reduces friction, allowing the hovercraft to scoot around without much trouble. It also makes it much more difficult to control, however: when the hovercraft turns, it will keep traveling in a straight line unless more thrust is applied. Since we are used to controlling cars or boats, the newtonian behavior of a hovercraft is challenging indeed. The body of the hovercraft is made out of styrofoam, cut with a saw and sanded to smooth the edges. The skirt on the bottom is made out of pieces of a plastic GAP bag, attached with Scotch tape and hot glue. The radio control unit was scavenged from an old boat I had, along with the drive motor mounted on the wooden supports, while the lifting motor was from my physics teacher. The battery is 300 mAh 6V NiMH (or NiCd, I forget), and I have a pair of them. They were about $6-$10 each (again, forgot) and about $12 for the 2 1/2 hour charger. The servomotor for steering was from an old RC car I had”

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For additional 6X Zoom levels, you can benefit greatly from the iPhone 3G Zoom Lens Telescope.

Install the crystal case first enclosed with the telescope.

Adjust the clear focus with the naked eye.

It can take a picture while fixing the telescope on back crystal case. (If the screen of your cellphone is analyzed degree enough, you can adjust the focus with the screen of the cellphone).

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RoofRay is a site that let’s you calculate your home’s solar power potential using the power of GoogleMaps.

It’s very interesting as the site will caculate the solar power potential based on the roof area and the slope of the roof.

It’s probably pretty accurate as most data is using direct satellite images off GoogleMaps.

The greatest part about this site is that you can find out how much energy you will be able to make with new solar power cells.  Then you calculate how much it is to install new solar panels on your roof to see how long it will take you to payoff the panels itself.

The RoofRay site allows you to specify location, size and slope of your roof via Google Maps. It then uses this info to estimate how much energy can be generated from your available exposure.

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If you skateboard, snowboard, surf, or do any other board sports, you will know the value of having your own balance board in your home to practice.

Besides practicing your balance, the Balance Board can give you toned calves, thighs, and a great way to exercise in a small space.

this ible will show you how to build your very own balance board to almost the exact same dimensions of the leading brands product (think surfer nickname for indonesia). however instead of costing you GBP 80 or howaver many dollars that translates into it will only cost you the basic materials and a few hours of projecty fun.

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